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Monday, June 5, 2006 01:55 AM

Manjoo's "Slam Dunk" No Better Than Tenet's WMD Case

As is my habit with the Euphemedia, I started reading this article at the end and worked backwards.

(Try it. It makes for some very entertaining headlines and opening salvos when you've already read the stuff they try to hide under the rug of the well-trained short attention span of the audience.)

First (for me), Manjoo attacks this: "Claim: Tens of thousands of people were disenfranchised due to voter registration errors."

He labels this claim "non-reality," but then goes on to "slam dunk" it thusly: "In fact, the coalition reports the number as an estimate of about 42,500 votes that were "lost," and 30,000 votes it says were "at risk" of being lost; it is not clear how many of those that were "at risk" were actually lost."

Uh huh. I see. Over 40,000 is not "tens of thousands." Therefore the election was not stolen.

Pardon me if my math's too rusty to add Manjoo to the list of people to be listened to on this topic.

And BTW, they're VOTERS, not votes. Those are fellow Americans Manjoo's writing off so casually. (Hint: That is the essence of our stolen elections crisis.)

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